Deaf Girl Assaulted For Using Sign Language

UK Police release image of woman they want to speak to after Deaf girl was assaulted for using sign language.

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -- Police have released an image of a woman they would like to speak to in connection with an assault on a Deaf girl.

Police say the teenager was verbally abused and shoved three times in the head and shoulder by the stranger, when she used sign language to try to communicate with her.

The victim was sitting with her friend on the train - which was travelling between Manchester Piccadilly and Stockport - when two women started talking to them.

The girl tried to explain that she was Deaf by using sign language.

However the two women became angry and abusive. They started shouting at the girl, before the victim was shoved three times in the head and shoulder by one of the women.

Now police are trying to trace a woman who is pictured in CCTV footage following the attack, which happened at about 8.25pm on Sunday, January 29.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: “Two women sat next to the teenage victim and her friend. The women started to talk to the victim but the girl tried to tell them she was Deaf using sign language. The women then started to shout at the girls and one of them pushed the victim three times in the head and shoulder."

Anyone with information is asked to contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016, quoting 400 of 29/3.

SOURCE - Manchester Evening News

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A couple who trafficked a 10-year-old girl to the UK who was repeatedly raped and kept as a domestic servant for nearly a decade.

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -- Ilyas and Tallat Ashar brought the girl, who is Deaf, from Pakistan and kept her at their home in Eccles, Salford, where she slept in the cellar. Ilyas Ashar, 84, was also found guilty of 13 counts of raping the girl, now in her 20s, who was found in 2009. The couple will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on 23 October.

Tallat Ashar, 68, was found guilty of trafficking and benefit fraud at an earlier trial, as was her husband. This can now be reported after the lifting of reporting restrictions, following Ilyas Ashar's conviction for rape at a retrial.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was only found after trading standards officials visited their Cromwell Road home investigating allegations of illegal activity.

Deaf girl was found in the cellar, which was described as "sparse, cold and damp". Police said the girl cleaned and cooked at the house, and was taken to other houses belonging to the family to carry out domestic chores.

Details of the victim's ordeal only emerged after she was taught sign language, enabling her to be interviewed by police. Thousands of pounds in benefits were claimed in the victim's name and a number of bank accounts were set up using her details, police said.

The couple's daughter, Faaiza Ashar, 46, was also found guilty of benefit fraud at an earlier trial. Judge Peter Lakin warned Ilyas Ashar to expect a "substantial prison sentence". Ch Supt May Doyle, from Greater Manchester Police, described Ilyas Ashar as "pure evil"... Read The Full Story.